Looking For A Great Volunteer Experience? Join ERC on Friday Afternoons!

About the role

Empowerment Resource Center (ERC) provides health-related programs and services, more specifically HIV and STI prevention education, risk reduction counseling, testing, referral, and treatment services, client advocacy and navigation services, and primary care linkages. ERC focuses on a broader array of services, assisting both individuals infected and affected by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Programs and services are offered on-site at the Comprehensive Intervention Clinic, at satellite locations, and through the ERC on the M.O.V.E. (Mobile Outreach Vehicle) program. The clinic offers low-cost health care services and is a registered clinic with the Georgia Medical Composite Board, a participating clinic under the Georgia Volunteer Health Care Program, and a nationally recognized STD clinic under the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration 340B program. ERC is the medical home of over 500 clients.

ERC is seeking energetic, enthusiastic and passionate individuals to help provide high-quality programs and services across the communities served. Volunteer opportunities involve all of ERC's departments and programs, including behavioral health, process monitoring, clinical, and administration.

Responsibilities

• Community Office Support volunteers perform a variety of tasks depending on project or event deadlines and departmental needs.
• Specialist Volunteers serve as Clinic Intake Specialists and Research Assistants.
• Clinic Intake Specialists assist in the provision of HIV and STI testing, health education and health literacy, risk reduction counseling, capacity building, client advocacy, and supportive services in the Comprehensive Intervention Clinic.
• Typical activities for Clinic Intake Specialists include day-to-day clinical and non-clinical operations, maintaining records, program evaluation, and client interviewing.
• Research Assistants assist in data collection, analysis, and evaluation for ERC's programs and services, working closely with the Research Analyst to conduct and analyze data relative to research in specialty areas.
• Typical activities for Research Assistants include recommending technology-based solutions and analyzing large datasets for clinical or basic programmatic and research purposes.

Requirements

• Energetic, enthusiastic, and passionate individuals.